Double-compartment package for mailing purposes.



C. P. CHAMBERLIN & C. T. FEZZEY.

DOUBLE COMPARTMENT PACKAGE FOR MAILING PURPOSES. APPLICATION FILED APR.I8, I914.

1,21% 128, Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

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f/TTORNEY ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE P. CHAMBERLIN AND CHESTER T. FEZZEY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN; SAIDCHAMBERLIN ASSIGNOR T SAID FEZZEY.

DOUBLE-COMPARTMENT PACKAGE FOR MAILING PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CLARENCE P. GHAM- BERLIN and CHESTER T. FEzzEY,citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, county offiVayne,State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inDouble-Compartment Packages for Mailing Purposes, and declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to makeand usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of-this specification.

This invention relates to combination container for mail matter and'itsobject is a reinforced double compartment package for parcel-post andfirst class mail matter. Heretofore it has usually been the practice tosend small articles by parcel-post, while a letter referring to themailing of such matter is sent in a separate envelop. Under a late rulinby the Postmaster General of the United tates, parcel-post packages maybe sent attached to first class mail matter thus obviating thediflicultiesheretoforeen countered by loss of one or the other of thepackages. The particular novel features of the invention are hereinaftermore fully 80 described and claimed and shown in the accompanyingdrawings in which Figure 1 is a view of the address s1de of the combinedparcel-post and first class mail package. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewof the package ready for maillng. Fig. '3 1s a view of the back of thecombined package showing the reinforcement.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings andspecification. 40 That part of the package designed for use in thetransporting of parcel-post matter is preferably of the nature of a"cloth tube 1,

the outer open end 2 of which is provided with a cord 3 threaded throughthe material by means of which the mouth of the tube may be drawn up andthe ends of the cord wrapped thereabout and tied as shown in Fig. 2.

The envelop 4 for containing the first class mail matter is preferablyof a Manila or other comparatively stifi' paper and the end 5 thereof isinserted in the end 6 of the cloth tube and secured in place thereon bya series of stitches passing through both sides of the bag 1 and theenvelop therebetween which are preferably in the form of a rectangle asshown by dotted lines 7. The envelop is preferably reinforced with a'cloth strip 10 that may be conveniently pasted to the back of the frontor address side of the envelop prior to, its being folded in final form.This strip is preferably practically of the full width and length of theenvelop within the interior thereof as indicated by dotted lines 11, andprevents the separating of the envelop from the parcel-post packagesecured thereto.

By inserting the envelop some little distance in the cloth tube 1, as isshown in the drawing, the fabric is held comparatively fiat providing aconvenient place for aflixing the parcel-post stamps, and the bag hasprinted thereon a data indicating the osition for the parcel-postpostage, as wel as the weight of the bag, while the envelop may haveindicated thereon the position for the first class postage. Both theenvelop and the parcel-post package may have printed thereon the nameand address of the sender as is usual with ordinary mail matter.

In addition to the function of holding the fabric flat to enable theparcel-post postage to be readily affixed thereto, the inserted end ofthe envelop and sewing thereof to the tubular fabric forms a closure forthe par- ,cel-post package, the opposite end of which may be closed witha cord 3 as heretofore stated. Both the envelops and cloth container maybe made in various sizes for various purposes.

The envelop 4 may also be of various forms having an opening on the sidethereof sealed by the flap 8, as shown in Fig. 3, or

by an end flap as shown by dotted line 9 in said figure, in which casethe envelop; would open at the end opposite the end attached to thefabric. If a side flap is used as shown at 8, the envelop should be ofgreater length than the flap 8 providing a part to be in:

' serted in the end of the tubular fabric.

Having thus briefly described our invention, what we claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United .States is 1. A mailing packagecomprising a sealable envelop-of itself formingxa'closed receptacle forfirst class mail matter, an open ended tubular cloth member sewed to theenvelop at one end, ,the stitching serving to close an end of the tubeand forming thereof a separate compartment for parcel post matter, andmeans for releasably closing the opposite end thereof.

2. A mailing package comprising an envelop having a gummed flap for thesealing thereof, a cloth container of tubular form,

the envelop being partly inserted within an end of the cloth containerand secured thereto, and a cord secured to the free end of the clothcontainer for closing the opening thereof.

3. A package for mailing parcel-post and first class mail mattercomprising a paper envelop having a cloth reinforcement secure dthereto, and a cloth container forming a separate compartment forparcel-post matter sewed to the envelop, the stitching passing throughboth the envelop and reinforcement.

4. A package for mailing purposes comprising a paper envelop for firstclass mail matter, a cloth reinforcement secured Within the envelop, anda cloth container for parcelpost mail matter sewed to the envelop, the

stitching passing through both the envelop and the reinforcement.

5. A double compartment package for mailing purposes comprising asealable envelop a cloth container of tubular form, the enve op beingpartly inserted Within an end of the cloth container and secured theretothe envelop being of a Width to hold the cloth container at the point ofsecuring comparatively flat, and means for closing the open end of thecloth container.

6. A package for mailing purposes comprising a scalable envelop, a clothreinforcement secured therewithin, a cloth container open at each end,an end of the envelop bet'alner and stitched thereto, the opening in thecontainer being practically of the Width of the envelop whereby thecloth of the container is held fiat at the point of stitching, and meansfor closing the opposite end. of the cloth container.

In testimony whereof,- we sign this specifiinserted in an open endof thecloth con-

